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Hockey first appeared at the , Ireland and Scotland . Hockey was removed from the Olympics at the 1924 Paris Games due to the lack of an international structure. The International Hockey Federation (FIH, ''Fédération Internationale de Hockey'') was founded in Paris that year as a response to hockey's omission. Men's hockey became a permanent fixture at the next Olympics Games ( 1928 Olympic Games , Amsterdam ). Women had to wait until the 1980 Moscow Games to be incorporated in the Olympics.

The games were played on Synthetic Fields for the first time at the 1976 Montreal Games .


MEN'S OLYMPIC HOCKEY TOURNAMENT



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